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he makes no mention of this fact. Nevertheless he assiste in preparing the way for modern mathematics by discouragin the use of the sangi, which were already beginning to be looke< upon as unwieldy by the best algebraists of his time.
Murai also wrote a Sampo DosJii-mon, or Arithmetic for th Young (see Figs. 36—38), which was intended as a seque